paulo da costa

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    • Beyond Bullfights and Ice Hockey
    • The Cartography of Being
    • The Green and Purple Skin of the World
    • The Scent of a Lie
    • The Midwife of Torment
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    • The Book of Catalogues
    • The Midwife of Torment – audio
    • Twenty Poems
    • notas de rodapé – audio
    • xx poemas
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    • O Perfume da Mentira
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  • Books
    • Beyond Bullfights and Ice Hockey
    • The Cartography of Being
    • The Green and Purple Skin of the World
    • The Scent of a Lie
    • The Midwife of Torment
  • Audio Books
    • The Scent of a Lie – audio
    • The Book of Catalogues
    • The Midwife of Torment – audio
    • Twenty Poems
    • notas de rodapé – audio
    • xx poemas
  • Livros
    • O Perfume da Mentira
    • notas de rodapé
  • Multimedia
    • Podcasts
      • Book Excerpts
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      • Readings
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  • Blog,  News,  Poesia,  Poetry,  Português

    Poema na Bienal Internacional de Poesia de Oeiras

    November 17, 2021 /

    No âmbito da Bienal Internacional de Poesia de Oeiras a decorrer de 16 a 21 de Novembro 2021 aqui está a declamação de um dos meus poemas.   https://youtu.be/bYchvlt0LkM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYchvlt0LkM  

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    Unhurried & Meditative – A National Post review

    May 10, 2013

    Interview in Portuguese-American Review

    December 21, 2015

    All Lit Up – Flash Interview

    May 19, 2017
  • Blog,  News,  Poetry

    New poem in Our Times

    February 8, 2019 /

    Poem – shooed out Visit the site here

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    Interview in Portuguese-American Review

    December 21, 2015

    Focus On Victoria – Magazine – w/ author paulo da costa

    July 8, 2017

    New World Odour

    November 18, 2012
  • News,  Poetry

    to be portuguese

    December 5, 2013 /

        to be portuguese   is to be born with the fado around your neck to live with your eyes anchored to the open sea, longing for the outgoing tide or for its incoming wave   living canned up between the sea and spain exporting sardines   going to mass and forgetting the sermon it’s confessing to friends with a bottle in your hand   and not making waves the ones that stir up the sea are enough   praying for peace admiring fátima and batalha in the same holy visit   to be portuguese is to love your car more than yourself and find it more affordable  …

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    Sharp and True – a book review by the Coastal Spectator

    May 23, 2013

    Beneath Thin Skin – BC Bookworld feature

    June 6, 2013

    New essay in Queen’s Quarterly

    September 16, 2016
  • Blog,  Poetry

    Atlantis – sang by Nancy Dutra

    August 7, 2013 /

    Talented Canadian singer Nancy Dutra has put to music one of my English poems from The Book of Water. Nancy has a distinctive and powerful voice that will delight any listener. Take a peek at this music video recorded under a Dragon Tree in Pico, Azores during the 2013 AzoresFringe Festival. And stay tuned for future collaborations between myself and Nancy. A talentosa cantora canadiana Nancy Dutra musicou e interpretou um dos meus poemas em língua inglesa e do meu manuscrito: The Book of Water. A Nancy tem uma voz marcante e poderosa que irá encantar qualquer ouvinte. Aproveitem para dar uma olhada neste vídeo  gravado sob uma árvore Dragão…

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    Poetic & Lyrical – impressions by Irene Marques

    January 12, 2016

    Interview in Portuguese-American Review

    December 21, 2015

    The Midwife of Torment

    September 22, 2013
  • Poetry

    the hunt

    November 24, 2012 /

    the hunt   1. predator the famished coyote circles my house asleep i stir puzzled by haunting dreams coyote follows my footprints on snow to her doorstep my doorstep to her this thin january his heart howls a song on a melting snow drift. the blue eyes of his own trickery led him astray the hunt fails cold jaw hollow teeth snapped on resilient bone i stir, rest my hand on her chest. our heartbeats still mime. 2. winter the winter is long the hunt an old habit the winter will return the hunt is never done the scent of blood suspended in the air magnetic pull and push of…

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    Atlantis – sang by Nancy Dutra

    August 7, 2013

    Rainbow Moon

    November 19, 2012
  • Poetry

    inevitable step

    November 24, 2012 /

        inevitable step     young tiko’s dreams scatter to pieces, hang from the baobab tree,   a boom of a thousand drums in the imagined luanda’s stadium where tiko’s feet, swift as birds, chased a soccer ball of rags   gravel, grass and cloth burrow in tiko’s stump   in the boot of europe, a church-going father designs devices in explosive greens and sands, calls them butterflies, toys gliding to the ground in the thousands. his sister quit valsella last month and greets him with a banner at the end of the day   home at night, in the undermining silence, missing another goodnight kiss, the father clings…

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    Rainbow Moon

    November 19, 2012

    Atlantis – sang by Nancy Dutra

    August 7, 2013
  • Poetry

    Rainbow Moon

    November 19, 2012 /

    14: a purple thistle sways in the heat a tide of granite inundates the valley wheels and wheels of stone encircle your musing body a small fire eats your dark thoughts jingle of bells cows and bulls trespass your prayers your smile cracks the stern boulder clouds open there is radiance in a mere glance your hands carry warm ashes of dark thoughts buried with the gentleness of slow gestures everything about you glows, eyes older than skin exquisite, twigs in the tiny stone circle speak a language i dare not ask

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    Atlantis – sang by Nancy Dutra

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  • Poetry

    Yesterday’s Dream

    November 19, 2012 /

    * pearls rolled the backs of geese, decorated nested wings. round pearls. clear. impossible. i stopped. rain did not. geese ruffled. pearls swept, seedling rain, planted in clouds. pearls bounced from nose to lip, to grass. pearls do not stay. greener places to see, to wet. hardly a soul by the river willing to feel how a river feels. except the woman. she smiled. we agreed the world was missing. i walked. a jewel of a time. i imagined dancing with you outside the sagging cabin. water. inside, outside the skin. i here, you there. i did not promise you tomorrow. i did not shake the words, forever. words surrounding…

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    Rainbow Moon

    November 19, 2012

    Atlantis – sang by Nancy Dutra

    August 7, 2013
  • Poetry

    a foot in two worlds

    March 20, 2012 /

    a foot in two worlds     on south terraced slopes vineyards rose in awnings of foliage feet lifted me up ten-foot ladders through green nearer the divine fingers easily pinched the dangling blue thirsty skin touched every soft fruit of the earth but not tin or plastic heels digging into grapes it was love stomping through the eve in granite vats tannin tingling skin before bed before blowing out the candle the blood of christ on my lips then hers   ©1998paulodacosta

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    Rainbow Moon

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  • Poetry

    The Soul and It’s Worms

    March 14, 2012 /

    * A leaf follows my footsteps rasping its skin against cobblestone bleeds with every turn to be near     ©1998 paulodacosta

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    Rainbow Moon

    November 19, 2012

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    August 7, 2013

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